Living in Costa Rica retirement relocation tours.

Relocation and Moving Services

For the last 27 years I have been  helped 1000s of people successfully relocate to Costa Rica. During this time I have been lucky to work closely with time-tested organizations like the Association of Residents of Costa Rica (ARCR) and Charles Zeller’s Ship to Costa Rica. Both of these organizations have outstanding track records and have withstood the test of time.

Unfortunately the coming of age of the Baby Boomers and Costa Rica’s growing popularity as a retirement/relocation have  given birth to similar companies who have tried to jump on the bandwagon. Most of these neophyte ship ping and relocation services are run by foreigners who are not even legal Costa Rica residents. A few of them are still tourists with no legal foothold in the country. They farm out most of their work to other people instead of actually doing it themselves and are really just middle men.  Also many of these people don’t even speak Spanish nor do the have a  real knowledge of how the country works. They are just here to take advantage of naive people who stumble onto their glitzy web sites and fall for the  verbiage. A couple of these organizations are located in the U.S. and consequently are really out of  touch when it comes to Costa Rica. Most of these people have never worked in the relocation business until they moved to Costa Rica and think just because they relocated here they are experts.

Would you trust a doctor straight out of medical school of one that has many years of experience. The same logic should be employed when choosing a person who offers relocation services.

We heard of one instance where one of these companies changed someone five times the normal fee to ship their pets to Costa Rica. Obviously the people didn’t do their research and consult an organization like the Association of Residents of Costa Rica or Ship to Costa Rica.

People should shop around and not be fooled by some websites. They should also ask to talk to people who have used a company’s services and try to do a background check on the owners to see if what they say about their experience is really true.